Azure AKS Contracts in the Midlands

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Azure AKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure AKS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 126 164
Rank change year-on-year +18 +38 +24
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 3 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.25% 0.087%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 1.02% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 3
10th Percentile - £420 £454
25th Percentile £425 £527 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £607 £538
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +12.93% +19.44%
75th Percentile £531 £611 £572
90th Percentile £565 - £581
England median daily rate £476 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -9.33% -12.50% -

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

Azure AKS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 583 688 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.46% 24.95% 35.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 519 879
10th Percentile £200 £198 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £575
90th Percentile £675 £682 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 16
10th Percentile £14.82 - £14.76
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.75 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +25.93% +9.00%
75th Percentile £19.87 £27.25 £24.47
90th Percentile £26.79 £50.04 £26.48
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the Midlands

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in the Midlands

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AKS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +9 2 £450 -25.86% 9
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OpenID
2 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft